A comparative Study on Resilience of Pastoral and AgroPastoral Households to Climate-induced Shocks and Stresses in Asayita Woreda of Afar Regional State, Ethiopia
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2019-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Change in climate and climate extremes are acknowledged as a vital challenge to pastoral
production systems. Alternative systems that are accessible to a household in order to make a
living could determine the household’s resilience at a given point in time. The present study was
conducted in Asayita wereda of Afar region in Ethiopia to assess the resilience of pastoralists and
agro pastoralist to climate induced shocks and stresses. A household questionnaire survey, key
informant interview and focus group discussion were employed to collect primary data required
for the study. A total of 115HHs (63 pastoral and 52 agro pastoral households) were sampled
using stratified random sampling technique for household survey and purposive sampling for KI
and FGD. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics and a multivariate method
called principal component analysis to determine the weight (factor loadings) of each resilience
dimension and compute resilience index at household level. A multiple linear regression model
was also used to assess factors determining the resilience of household to climate induced shocks
and stresses in the study areas. Accordingly, asset, adaptive capacity, social safety nets, access to
public services, income and food access and stability were identified to be the different dimensions
used to estimate the resilience status of households in the study area. Further results revealed that
pastoralists were less resilient than agro-pastoralists in all dimensions, except social safety nets.
Enhancing livestock assets and productivity, social safety nets, access to market, credit, extension
services and education, improving irrigation crop farming, and providing farm inputs significantly
enhanced the resilience of households to climate induced shocks and stresses. irrigation crop
farming, livestock ownership, education level, per capita income, mobility and herd splitting, herd
composition change, labor, remittance, food aid, access to credit, market and formal early
warning information were significant factors determining resilience of households to climateinduced shocks and stresses. Therefore, to improve the resilience of pastoral and agro pastoral
households, the government and its development partners must target at strategies that address
the above mentioned factors in general and factors related to the adaptive capacity and asset
dimensions for pastoral households in particular in the study area.
Keywords: Agro pastoralist, Afar, Ethiopia, Livelihood, pastoralist, Resilience
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Agro pastoralist, Afar, Ethiopia, Livelihood, pastoralist, Resilience